Kathmandu: Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned on Tuesday, his aide said, as anti-corruption demonstrators defied an indefinite curfew and clashed with police, a day after 19 people died in violent protests triggered by a social media ban.

Oli’s government lifted the social media ban after protests turned violent, killing 19 and injuring more than a hundred after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament on Monday.

Riot police use a water cannon on protesters outside the parliament in Kathmandu on Monday. Credit: AP

The unrest is the worst in decades in the poor Himalayan country that is wedged between India and China and has struggled with political instability and economic uncertainty since protests led to the abolition of its mon

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